On 21 September at Gallery 1957 in Accra, the Nuku Festival will close – with an exhibition opening.

Founder’s Day is perfect timing to open the exhibition “Life According to James Barnor”. It will showcase Barnor’s photographs of Ghana and the United Kingdom from 1948 to 1980. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Gallery 1957 and Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, and supported by Institut Français, Alliance Française Accra, and the Embassy of France in Accra.

Nuku Festival’s residency programme is a unique opportunity for photographer Robert Charlotte to develop a new body of work in a safe and inspiring space. For one month he has been working out of the Nuku Studio Headquarters in Accra. The results of this process are shown in an exhibition at Alliance Française Accra

Nuku Studio creates and grows a self-sustained photography community and network. It provides the Ghanaian photography community with a safe space to meet, experiment, exchange, inspire and be inspired, and grow. Its protected space is open to all creatives and visual artists and invites especially women photographers to be active part of the community, as it is still a very male-dominated field. The evening is a moment to discuss the opportunities, challenges and experiences of women in photography in Ghana - with: Nubuke Foundation, African Lens, Lensational, Josephine Kuuire, Jessica Sarkodie, and Ruth MacDowall.

The exhibition “Foreseen” showcases the work of 13 young and emerging African visual storytellers, selected from the African Photojournalism Database (APJD). At the core of the APJD is the mission to celebrate refreshing and diverse stories told by photographers often overlooked by the global media industry - stories that are not widely seen in the current, exclusive media landscape. Offering reimagined visual narratives from across the African continent, ‘Foreseen’ explores themes such as tradition, religion, identity, history, memory and daily life. This collection of work celebrates a new generation of photographers who are redefining what should be seen, and how, through the stories that matter to them.

Thanks to the eyes of the photographer Amilton Neves, we are guided into a very personal journey. Facing some outside metal or wooden painted walls, passing through some small main doors, we are going into the houses of several old Mozambican women, in order to meet them, to enter into their life, into their private space, to see how they live, to acknowledge their past, to listen to their history, to the history of Mozambique.

In May 2018, Nuku Studio, together with World Press Photo Foundation, organised the first Portfolio Review and Meet-Up for photographers in Ghana. This second portfolio review is an invitation to all photographers, Ghanaian and international, based in Ghana to have their portfolios reviewed. Reviewers include: photographers Nana Kofi Acquah, Nii Obodai, and Leke Alabi-Isama, Marc Prüst (Nuku Photo Festival), and David Campbell (World Press Photo Foundation). Participation is free, but please register via email at info@nukufestival.com.

For three years, 11 Ghanaian and international photographers have made a visual documentation of the society and landscape of Northern Ghana. Their various perspectives allow a nuanced and visually dynamic photographic insight into the richness, beauty, and uniqueness of the region. Northern Ghana has rarely been the subject of collaborative photographic research, and in a historical and a photographic sense we may even go as far as to call it a terra incognita. The stories by the photographers invite us to explore the diverse and dynamic region that is Northern Ghana. They provide a visual interpretation of a largely undocumented landscape, and document its current state-of-affairs for future generations.

The exhibition “Women & Work” showcases the work of six young women and girls aged 13 to 28 from Ho. They are exploring what the topic “Women & Work” means to them. They have found a new voice in photography to express themselves and their view of the world they live in.